Quotes About Author

I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other.

Of my own spirit let me be in sole though feeble mastery.

You want fans to connect to the book, even movie fans. But if your sole purpose is to write towards a certain kind of fan, that way leads madness.

We oppose any pipeline whose sole purpose is to export bitumen from Canada to make profits in other countries.

Being the Bachelorette holds a lot of pressure, especially on this first night since I was making my decision solely based on first impressions.

I don't think income solely determines health. I think lots of other things determine health.

I didn't love David Bowie. Sure, I loved a lot of his songs, like everybody else, and, like everybody else, I had an incarnation of Bowie that I loved best - in my case, the solemn 'art-rock' Bowie of the late Seventies.

From the ground, I'm pretty solid from both sides. My form really helps me a lot and my backend complements it.

T.N. Seetharam is known for solid work in television and film.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

When you're trying to force things in a script, it seems like it's getting somewhere, but it isn't real or interesting. All the bad material you've written becomes an albatross around your neck. So I really don't like writing a lot of bad stuff, I prefer to just keep narrowing it down to stuff I think is solid.

We had a script that was really solid and we knew how we were going to shoot and how the energy of it was going to go. So it gave us a lot of freedom to use the camera as a character.

I always thought Vincent Lindon had a sexy body, a body you can trust, a solid body you can lean on.

Claiming that solid rockets are necessary for a heavy-lift launcher is obvious nonsense.

I never write thinking, 'What would a woman do?' any more than I think, 'What would a man do?' It comes down to what would a solid detective do in these circumstances.

I'm grateful to Torino because they offered me a true, solid opportunity.

I continue to feel it was solidarity in the prison that made living in prison a different kind of community, and I began a life of service.

And if you are going to truly stand with workers, it also means embracing solidarity, not attempting through lame talking points to pit union workers against non-union workers.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

It's funny: I'm a lifelong musician, but because I principally play the piano it's been a solitary thing.

I love getting out the house because writing is such a solitary business that even being at the library makes me feel part of the world.

Writing, by nature, is a fairly solitary occupation.

Writing a novel is solitary, but I don't mind that.

Writing a novel can be solitary at times compared to screenwriting, but I don't mind that.